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Submitted: 1/26/21 • Approved: 1/26/21 • Last Updated: 1/29/21 • R382588-G382588-S3
Walter G.
1909-1968
Mason
Essie M.
1911-2008
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Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary for Walter
Funeral services for Walter Gerald Forbes, 59, office manager of Weskem Corp., and longtime Borger resident, are at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in First Baptist Church. The Rev. Joe D. Ray, pastor, will officiate.
Burial in Westlawn Memorial Park will be directed by Ed Brown & Sons.
Forbes was found dead early Monday in his automobile on the road from Sanford to the Sanford Yake Area of Lake Meredith. Death was attributed to a heart attack.
Forbes was a member of the First Baptist Church, where he served as deacon and church treasurer. He was a member of Isom Masonic Lodge 1242, A.F. & A.M.
Surviving are his wife, Essie, 409 W. Adams; son, Clinton of Pampa; daughter, Mrs. Phillip Langen of Canyon; four brothers, Woodrow of Mt. Ida, Ark., Guilford of Mena, Ark.; Festel Goff, Mt. Ida, and Dewey Goff, Oden, Ark.; five sisters, Mrs. Clarence Gross, Vacoville, Calif., Mrs. Frank Smith, Mrs. Marvin Mullenix, Oden, Ark., Mrs. Earl Benham, Lamar, Colo., Mrs. Eva Black, Mt. Ida, Ark.; and six grandchildren.
Pall bearers will be: Bob Conley, Bob Hawkins, Ora Herrelson, George Green, Howard Adamson, and J.B. Massingill. Honorary bearers will be all deacons of the First Baptist Church of Borger.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Tuesday, September 3, 1968)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Walter Forbes
Death Date: 2 Sep 1968
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Walter Gerald Forbes
Birth Date: 10 Mar 1909
Birth Place: Arkansas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: William Porter Forbes
Mother: Vina Fryer
Age at Death: 59
Death Date: 2 Sep 1968
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
*Obituary for Essie
Essie Forbes, 96, of Canyon died Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the First Baptist Church in Canyon with Dr. David Lowrie Jr. officiating. Graveside services will be at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Borger.
Arrangements are by Brooks Funeral Directors.
What an incredibly wonderful life God gave to Essie Forbes. She was born the youngest of 10 children on Feb. 27, 1911, to George and Annie Laura Loyd in McLean. After graduating from high school in Clovis, N.M., she married Walter Gerald Forbes in July 1931. The couple moved to Borger in October 1933. After raising her two children, Essie worked as financial secretary at First Baptist Church in Borger for 17 years. She moved to Canyon in 1970 where she served First Baptist Church as a church secretary for several years.
Essie enjoyed many passions in her life. Her first love was for her Lord. She accepted Christ as her Savior during her youth at an evangelistic meeting. She and Walter were very happy in serving Him through their church. Essie relished the fellowship her Sunday School classes and Women's Missionary Union groups afforded. Her second love was for her husband and family. She was an adoring wife who shared Walter's enjoyment of family gatherings at home and on fishing excursions on the pontoon boat at Lake Meredith. She was a wonderful mother and a patient and loving Meme to her six grandchildren. Her third passion was for creating things of beauty. Her art talent produced beautiful landscapes and ceramics.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1968; and a son-in-law, Phillip Langen in 2003.
Survivors include a daughter, Jerrie Langen of Canyon; a son, Clinton Forbes and wife Barbara of Ruidoso, N.M.; six grandchildren; 17 great grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to the First Baptist Church Library or the Quilting Ministry at the First Baptist Church, 1717 4th Ave., Canyon, TX 79015.
Published in the Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 4, 2008
Contributed on 1/26/21 by neldapat
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